My toddler teaches me to keep life simple, and that perfection is not necessary to find joy in parenting.
I AM…
Why do we spend so much time letting other people decide what we are and what we’re not? Why do we spend so much of our mental energy believing them? Our opinion of us has to be greater than the opinions of others, and so much more important. Only you hold the power to be, …
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Today I Wear Pearls
Today, I wear pearls. I wear pearls because they signify something beautiful that came from an injury. I wear pearls because they indicate class and elegance. I wear pearls for all brown girls who have ever been made to feel like they don’t belong. I wear pearls for all the women in a man’s world, …
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Modern Meditations on Politics & Anti-Social Media
Politics From the Greek politika, meaning “things concerning the polis,” “polis” meaning the city, or the people. The Greeks gave us political philosophy and the idea of democracy. This evolved away from a system where power was held by a single person, usually a king, and gave it to the citizens, which is what we …
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What Do We Tell the Children
My sisters, my friends. The last paragraph of my last post came to me as I tried to muster some form of comfort to speak to my baby sister, who is a few years my junior, but missed a lot of the good stuff we came up with. Sadly, her time has been wrought with …
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Capitol Crime
My heart weighs heavy with the events of today. It’s like I could hear a rip in the fabric of our very flag today. I seem to recall some sucky Gerard Butler movies that started with some far off mob taking the White House or some insane thing. And I always thought, “No way. So …
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Just Enough
In a society of Over planning, Over scheduling, Over committing, Over thinking, Over worrying, Overwhelming, Over exposing, Over doing, Over comparing, Over spending, Over cooking, Over eating, Over expecting, Over complaining; I am thankful for this year teaching me about Just Enough. Just enough company to keep, Just enough food on the shelves, Just enough …
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Life Song
My life is like a song. With every year I live, I rehearse it a little bit better.
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Once Have I Seen A Cowboy Cry
Only once have I seen a cowboy cry. Laugh at his joke, and you might see a twinkle in his eye, Damsel in distress, you’ve never seen a cowboy stronger. Have words with anyone who’d try to wrong her. After a particularly bad day, You might hear a cowboy pray. Pay him a compliment, and …
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This is My Dad
This is my dad. He loves to play the piano. He plays the piano like people should live life. He plays straight from the heart. You know how I know that? Because his memory is pretty much shot, stolen from him partially by illness and the rest, by the medicines he had to take to …
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The Difference Between Symbolism and Patriotism: NFL, Protests, Racism, and Our Nation
Consider This I’ve read about people boycotting the NFL because the players were kneeling for the anthem, and other such drama still surrounding these anthem protests. So, somehow, this protest on the field has spurred a protest of its own. I’m so dang tired of hearing everybody be so quick to pick a fight before …
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Hustle and Flow
Just recently, I felt the meaning of the words “hustle” and “flow”. They sound cool and had been beyond my conceptual reach for a while, but I find them to be very real industrial terms. FLOW. Let’s start with “flow“. Flow is a little bit more commonly used in different industries. We talk about athletes …
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USA 2020.
I’ll confess. I have lived most of my life fairly ignorant of politics. Politics have always seemed to me a necessary evil, where people go to sell their souls for votes, and they’ll lie to you quicker than an old car salesman. I’ve always been concerned more on the inner person, how a person feels/ …
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Stargazer
I can’t help it. I love looking at the stars. So, tonight, for maybe the third time this week, I’m staring at a night sky and trying to get my bearings enough to find this comet. I don’t know what makes it different from any other comet, but I know they said it won’t be …
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The Video that Set the World on Fire (George Floyd)
I was talking to an officer friend of mine the other day, and we were talking about the riots. I said I don’t condone it but I could understand the anger. Do you really believe they haven’t been gaslit at every turn? Every time, they are told how to feel about it, and how to …
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Wake:Up!
Wake up, America! It’s war time in America. We’ve been fed hateful rhetoric for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We’ve fortified walls, when we should have been building bridges. People are dying on American soil. There are abuses of power everywhere. If you haven’t turned on the news lately, it’s us. We’re the news. The spotlight’s …
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So, What’s the Plan?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama So, what do we do? Do we want to do what we’ve always done; so we can get where we’ve always gotten? Or, …
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What’s in a Name…?
Racism isn’t all white hoods and riots. And it is, regrettably, still a thing. It can be micro-conflicts that people encounter every day. It can be what we do if we witness such micro-conflicts, and what we don’t do. It’s how we behave toward certain people. It’s how we treat people differently based on appearances …
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Real Talk, America.
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” —Angela Davis, academic and political activist Real talk, America. We are truly in the midst of an epidemic. Racism is a disease. And it hides in un-examined hearts. My pastor doesn’t let us leave on Sundays before he’s asked us …
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Passages Against Racism
I’ve spent a lifetime being quiet. But I feel like I can’t do that any longer. Because there’s a time to be quiet, and there’s a time to get mad. I have a lifetime full of friends that are suffering right now, who are extremely uncomfortable at all of this, and I’m going to say …
